Right now I’m just using my iPad to work in Scrivener. I like it, but I don’t know where to find the total wordcount of a project. When I tap the word count of my current document I get the image of the circle and ‘a’ total wordcount, but it’s not of the entire project. I read somewhere that you can see it through compile, but when I go there it only compiles a part of the project.
Then I remembered, before exporting my project to the iOS version, I had done a compilation of a part of the project. So, for some reason Scrivener on iPad only takes into account that portion of my project. Where can I fix this?
Anyone?
It basically boils down to this: how can I select what documents to include in Compile on iOS? For some reason, when I select Compile, only the selection previously made in the Windows version is selected. Can I get to a screen in iOS to select which parts of a project to include in Compile? Thanks in advance for your reply.
It wouldn’t be capable of using your compile group selection, or filtering settings, from the desktop version (it lacks those features entirely, so it wouldn’t read from them either). Were you perhaps using some other method to select a portion of the draft to compile?
Here are, by the way, the main ways we’ve designed for selecting partials of the Draft for compile. As noted there, one might use the hard, per-item, checkbox setting as well but that’s of more utility to things you’d never ordinarily want to compile, like chapter notes or incomplete sections (and stuff you probably wouldn’t ever want counted either, in stats).
Maybe that’s what you did though? If so, you can access that toggle in the Inspector on the iOS version. Sadly there is no overview of that information anywhere, like there is in the Outliner, or even the compile contents tab, so thus no bulk way of making changes.
Yes, that is exactly what I did, Amber (I needed to compile just a couple of chapters in the middle, to have them read by a couple of people). How can I access that toggle in the inspector on iOS? I see that you can choose ‘include in compile’ for every separate document, but is there also an ‘overview’?
It’s every separate document, one by one, that’s what I meant about there being no true Outliner view where you can add this checkbox as a column and batch set it (with Alt-click).
Depending on how many checkboxes that means, it might be easier to fix it on Windows.
Got it. I tried unchecking every box in Windows, to see if bypassing the ‘hard per-item selection’ would solve the problem, but that just produces a word count of 0 .
I guess I’ll just fix it in Windows (meaning checking every box for every item made), and add each new chapter in iOS manually.
I don’t know if I quite follow all of that. Yes you do need to set the checkbox on for it to be counted (excluded text is excluded and all that), but the rest of this maybe seems more complicated than is necessary? Or maybe what I’m missing is that you’re away from the main computer for a duration, and need another fix than using a PC.
I’ll try to clarify, but I think we mean the same thing.
In order to include every document in my total word count on iOS, I have to make sure that every document I’ve written is checked ON in compile. Earlier I had made a selection of a couple of chapters in the middle of my project (in Windows) and compiled those for my test-readers.
Then I moved the whole project to my iPad so I could bring it along on my holiday (so yes, there was no Windows pc). That’s where I found out I couldn’t manually check/uncheck in compile in iOS (so only those middle chapters were available). I hope that clears it up.
I read somewhere that there are better ways for Compile selection than those ‘hard’ check boxes, but de-selecting all boxes in Windows and moving again to iOS just gave a word count of 0. Maybe there is some pre-programmed Compile setting that I could be using.
But it’s no biggie. It works for me now. My question was basically only about being able to see the word count in iOS, and I think I get that now.
I read somewhere that there are better ways for Compile selection than those ‘hard’ check boxes, but de-selecting all boxes in Windows and moving again to iOS just gave a word count of 0. Maybe there is some pre-programmed Compile setting that I could be using.
You need to set them all on (which is how they will always be by default when you make new items), and then use the other more temporary and low-impact methods of filtering. I linked to some tips on that in this post. For example you can set it up so you pick two or three sections of the binder with Ctrl-clicking, and have the compiler use only those items you selected.
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